Rachel Keown Burke is a Stage Manager, playwright, and director. She graduated from UNC School of the Arts School of Filmmaking in 2008 with a concentration in Cinematography and Screenwriting. She continued her career as a camera assistant in Los Angeles. In 2019, she attended The Mitten Lab Playwriting Residency, and workshopped Lois Bipolar and the Esoteric Scotch Tapes (nee Box Cutter). In the summer of 2020, Rachel directed a staged reading of Brilliant Works of Art by Donna Hoke at the Public Theatre of San Antonio. This was her 2nd time directing Donna's work, the first for Outvisible Theatre's New Works Festival in 2018, Allen Park, MI. Two of her original works, Dutch Baby and Book'd, premiered at Theatre Nova via Zoom in the fall of 2020 during its New Plays, New Voices Festival. Most recently, an excerpted piece of Thank You, But Fuck You was workshopped at the Inkwell Theatre in Los Angeles. Rachel is a Stage Manager and Resident Artist at the Purple Rose Theatre Company in Chelsea, MI.